‘Mary Magdalene Rises from the Dust,’ Twice ... miracle worker; wife and lover of Jesus; symbol of the erotic; and New Age goddess. By challenging uniform or homogenised readings of the Magdalene, ...

Elizabeth Schrader Polczer is assistant professor of New Testament at Villanova University. Her research focuses on textual criticism, Mary Magdalene, and the Gospel of John. Hear the full version of ...

In this gnostic gospel, Mary Magdalene appears as a disciple, singled out by Jesus for special teachings. In this excerpt, the other disciples are discouraged and grieving Jesus' death.

A new film about Mary Magdalene sets out to refute the commonly held assumption that she was a prostitute redeemed by Christ. Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus Christ Superstar. The Last Temptation of Christ.

Mary Magdalene is known as the apostle to the Apostles ... But for some Catholics, Mark represents most emphatically the saint as political symbol, powerfully linked with the identity of Venice.

From Istanbul's Blue Mosque to Paris’s Notre Dame, religious monuments have awed and amazed the masses for thousands of ...

Another depiction of the site was uncovered in 1585 AD of a fourth-century sculpture that showed Jesus standing before Mary ...

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On Sunday Mary Magdalene and some of Jesus's disciples ... Christians call this the resurrection. An egg is a symbol of new life. For Christians, Easter eggs are used as a symbol for the ...

History films work in various ways. One is to comfort the viewer that such a time is consigned to the past. Melodramas like ...

A remarkable early crucifixion scene by one of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance, Fra Angelico, has been saved for the British nation after the Ashmolean museum in Oxford raised £4.48m to ...

Silence will fall across our towns and villages at 11am on Sunday marking 106 years since the end of the First World War.